Give Better Get Better

Welcome to Give Better Get Better, the show for community foundation professionals. Thanks for listening to our weekly conversations with community foundation leaders from across America. Today, Josh talks with Dennis Buehler from the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation. Dennis discusses how his community handles being known for one specific thing and they way they leverage that high-profile pa...

Welcome to Give Better Get Better, the show for community foundation professionals. We hope you find our weekly conversations with community foundation leaders from across America interesting and helpful in your work. Today, Josh gets to know Eric Wilkie at the FM Area Foundation in Fargo-Moorhead (North Dakota/Minnesota) and his buddy FM Phil. Eric explains how he worked with local partners to cr...

Welcome to Give Better Get Better, the show for community foundation professionals. Our weekly conversations with community foundation leaders from across America focus on something big they are tackling in their community. This week, Josh talked with Alan Davis from Whitefish Community Foundation in Montana. He explained how he has leveraged circles of giving to bring seasonal residents together...

Welcome to Give Better Get Better, the show for community foundation professionals. We're bringing you weekly conversations with community foundation leaders from across America about something big they are tackling in their community. This week, Josh welcomed Jennifer Bartenbach from Central Indiana Community Foundation. She told Josh about her efforts to connect donors and nonprofits across gove...

Welcome to Give Better Get Better, the show for community foundation professionals. We're back with weekly episodes, talking with community foundation leaders from across America about something big they are tackling in their community. This week, Josh welcomed back Ralph Serpe from the Adams County Community Foundation in Pennsylvania. In 2025, Ralph received the Council on Foundation's first eve...

Welcome back to Give Better Get Better, the show for community foundation professionals. We've returned from our summer vacation and look forward to a new season of conversations with community foundation leaders from across the country. This year we are asking about One Big Thing they are working on and what others can learn from their experience with that issue. To launch our next season, Josh t...

Welcome to the last session of Summer School on professional advisor engagement. Thanks for checking out our conversations with participants from Embolden's Intensive Advisor Cohort program about what they learned and how they are applying it to their work. Attorneys, accountants and financial planners are valuable partners for community foundations, so we all need to think about how we can contri...

Welcome to session three of Summer School, our series exploring professional advisor engagement. During August we're talking with participants from Embolden's Intensive Advisor Cohort about the content and how they are applying what they learned to their work. Professional advisors are essential partners for community foundations, and every staff member plays a role in earning (and keeping) their...

Welcome back to Summer School, our seasonal series focused on professional advisor engagement. We will spend August talking with participants from Embolden's Intensive Advisor Cohort program about what they learned and how they are applying it to their work. Advisor partners are essential to the growth of community foundations, so whether you work directly on advisor engagement or not you'll find...

Welcome to our first Summer School focused on professional advisor engagement. For the next few weeks, we will talk with participants from Embolden's Intensive Advisor Cohort program about their work with advisors and what they learned from the program and their peers. Advisor partners are essential to the growth of community foundations, so whether you work directly on advisor engagement or not y...

Community foundations have a unique nonprofit mission: to generate more support for the missions of the other nonprofits in our community. However, our ability to pursue this mission is built on our internal operations, just like most other kinds of organizations. The connection between internal ops and external effectiveness is the focus of our Inside & Out series. To wrap up the Inside &...

Community foundations are a different kind of animal in the nonprofit world. Our mission is to generate more support for the missions of the other nonprofits in our community, and our ability to do so is built on our internal operations. The connection between operations and effectiveness is the focus of our Inside & Out series. This week Josh welcomes Kristin Todd, President and CEO of the No...

Community foundations are unique organizations that can be hard to explain. However, like most nonprofits, we spend money on people and tools to pursue our mission in the community. The Inside & Out series explores the connection between those investments and the change we can make in our service area. This week's episode is double-barreled! Josh talks with Brie Griset Smith, Chief Development...

Community foundations work to build and grow nonprofits that improve life in our service area. Our success relies heavily on our internal capacity to pursue that mission in the community. The connection between operations and effectiveness is the focus of our Inside & Out series. This week Josh talks with Shelly Prichard, President and CEO of The Wichita Foundation. Shelly discusses her career...

Because we work in community foundations, we know our internal capacity significantly affects our success in pursuing our mission in the community. That connection -- between operations and effectiveness -- is the focus of our Inside & Out series. This week Josh welcomes Rebecca Fishman Lipsey, President and CEO of The Miami Foundation. Rebecca shares her mission to make Miami the most generou...

Community foundations are unique in many ways, but like most organizations our internal capacity significantly affects our success in pursuing our mission. That connection -- between operations and effectiveness -- is the focus of our Inside & Out series. Today Josh talks with Marisa Magallanez, President and CEO of Albuquerque Community Foundation and New Mexico Community Trust. Having assume...

Community foundations are unique in many ways, but like most organizations our internal capacity significantly affects our success in pursuing our mission. That connection -- between operations and effectiveness -- is the focus of our Inside & Out series. This week Josh welcomes Susie Nelson, Executive Director of the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley in Wheeling, WV. Drawing on nearly...

Community foundations can be hard to explain. But like most companies or organizations, our internal culture and capacity significantly influence our effectiveness in pursuing our external mission. That connection is the focus of our Inside & Out series. This week Josh talks with Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson, President & CEO of the Community Foundation of Broward in south Florida. Jennifer...

Community foundations are unique in many ways. Not exactly mission-driven nonprofits, and not a typical financial institution, our organizations can be hard to explain. However, like most companies or organizations, our internal culture and capacity significantly influence our effectiveness in pursuing our external mission. That connection is the focus of our next series: Inside & Out. This se...

This special episode features a creative way that one community foundation has built pride and connection around a major athletics event. Listen in as Josh talks with Jessica Martin, President and Executive Director of the Greater Salina Community Foundation. She explains her uncommon path from selling cabinets to community foundation leadership, her organization's focus on planned giving, and the...

As the icy grip of winter begins to fade we are wrapping up our Snowbird Series. We hope you're enjoying these conversations with community foundation leaders to learn how part-time residents shape their work. This week, Josh welcomes the first repeat guest in the history of the podcast! Kristi Knous, President of the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines shares a brief recap of their work in...

This week's installment in our Snowbird Series takes us across Lake Michigan from last week and all the way across the state of Michigan. Jackie Hanton, Vice President at the Community Foundation for St. Clair County, introduces us to her corner of the world, shares her path from trust officer to community foundation leadership, the investments they are making in rural recreational assets, and the...

Welcome back to our Snowbird Series on seasonal residents with homes in more than one community. We hope you're enjoying these conversations with community foundation leaders to learn how part-time residents shape their work. This week, Josh welcomes Bret Bicoy, President & CEO of Door County Community Foundation (the "thumb" of Wisconsin). Bret explains why local residents are "protective of...

Our Snowbird Series, an exploration of donors who make their home in more than one community, continues to think about how these residents influence the work of place-based philanthropies like community foundations. Next, we head to the Rockies to meet Erica Snow, President & CEO of Aspen Community Foundation. Erica shares her path from being a mental health professional to a community foundat...

Welcome back to the Snowbird Series, our deep-dive on donors who call more than one community home. We're asking community foundation leaders how the Snowbirds in their communities drive their work. Next up, Josh welcomes Chris Sawin, President & CEO of Outer Banks Community Foundation on the North Carolina coast. Chris explains how his background in music contributes to his career in philanth...